tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33737749662433260092024-03-19T01:48:02.536-07:00Northwest ReverbNorthwest Reverb - Reflections by James Bash and others about classical music in the Pacific Northwest and beyond - not written by A.I.James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.comBlogger6468125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-79163447912309862922024-03-19T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-19T00:30:00.238-07:00Today's BirthdaysFrancesco Gasparini (1661-1727)
Max Reger (1873-1916)
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)
Nancy Evans (1915-2000)
Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)
Myung-Wha Chung (1944)
Carolyn Watkinson (1949)
Mathew Rosenblum (1954)
and
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)
Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852)
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
Philip Roth (1933-2018)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-85011307408300758572024-03-18T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-18T00:30:00.132-07:00Today's BirthdaysJohann Christoph Vogel (1756-1788)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Paul Le Flem (1881-1984)
Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973)
Willem van Hoogstraten (1884-1965)
John Kirkpatrick (1905-1991)
Nobuko Imai (1943)
James Conlon (1950)
Jan-Hendrik Rootering (1950)
Courtney Pine (1964)
and
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898)
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Manly Hall (1901-1990)
George Plimpton (1927-2003)
James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-53731413687860229862024-03-17T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-17T00:30:00.145-07:00Today's BirthdaysÉlisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
Manuel García II (1805-1906)
Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901)
Giuseppe Borgatti (1871-1950)
Brian Boydell (1917-2000)
Nat "King" Cole (1917-1965)
John LaMontaine (1920-2013)
Stephen Dodgson (1924-2013)
Betty Allen (1927-2009)
Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993)
John Lill (1944)
Michael Finnissy (1946)
Patrick Burgan (1960)
and
Edmund Kean (1787-1833)
Frank B. James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-17850355170936928452024-03-16T18:04:00.000-07:002024-03-16T18:06:50.230-07:00Review: Ehnes, Heyward, and the organ shine with the Oregon SymphonyJames Ehnes in rehearsal with the Oregon Symphony under Jonathon HeywardThe Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall has benefited a lot from the acoustical upgrade that was done in the fall of 2020 (see my article in The Oregonian), but if there were still some lingering doubts about the improved sound, they were laid to rest when the organ came in at full blast in the final movement of Saint-Saëns’s “James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-89628366290443189922024-03-16T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-16T00:30:00.130-07:00Today's BirthdaysEnrico Tamberlik (1820-1889)
Henny Youngman (1906-1998)
Christa Ludwig (1928-2021)
Sir Roger Norrington (1934)
Teresa Berganza (1935-2022)
David Del Tredici (1937-2023)
Claus Peter Flor (1953)
and
James Madison (1751-1836)
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
César Vallejo (1892-1938)
Sid Fleischman (1920-2010)
Alice Hoffman (1952)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-49234907676129434862024-03-15T20:53:00.000-07:002024-03-15T20:55:18.108-07:00Deanna Tham advances in La Maestra competition According to this posting on Facebook from the La Maestra competition (in Paris). Oregon Symphony Associate Conductor Deanna Tham has made it past the initial round (of 14 candidates) to the semi-finals - seven finalists. Yay!James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-89653343288709613332024-03-15T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-15T00:30:00.129-07:00Today's BirthdaysCharles Dibdin (1745-1814)
Eduard Strauss (1835-1916)
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935)
Colin McPhee (1900-1964)
Lightnin' Hopkins (1912-1982)
Ben Johnston (1926-2019)
Nicolas Flagello (1928-1994)
Jean Rudolphe Kars (1947)
Isabel Buchanan (1954))
and
Richard Ellmann (1918-1987)
Ben Okri (1959)
and from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1985, Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, age 22, makes his James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-18944631506204655532024-03-14T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-14T00:30:00.139-07:00Today's BirthdaysGeorg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727-1756)
Pierre-Louis Couperin (1755-1789)
Johann Strauss Sr. (1804-1849)
Lawrance Collingwood (1887-1982)
Witold Rudziński (1913-2004)
Quincy Jones (1933)
Phillip Joll (1954)
and
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Sylvia Beach (1887-1962)
Max Shulman (1919-1988)
Diane Arbus (1923-1971)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-79085750693168314342024-03-13T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-13T00:30:00.133-07:00Today's BirthdaysHugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Alec Rowley (1892-1958)
Irène Joachim (1913-2001)
Jane Rhodes (1929-2011)
Alberto Ponce (1935-2019)
Lionel Friend (1945)
Julia Migenes (1949)
Wolfgang Rihm (1952)
Anthony Powers (1953)
Moses Hogan (1957-2003)
Terence Blanchard (1962)
and
Janet Flanner (1892-1978)
George Seferis (1900-1971)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-61749844886210503232024-03-12T11:08:00.000-07:002024-03-12T11:08:22.565-07:00Preview of Portland Opera's The Snowy Day in The Oregonian I've written a preview of this inventive opera production of a beloved children's book. You can read it in Oregonlive here. It will appear in print edition of The Oregonian this Friday.James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-20961424655986066132024-03-12T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-12T00:30:00.132-07:00Today's BirthdaysThomas Arne (1710-1778)
Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
Hans Knappertsbusch (1888-1965)
Ralph Shapey (1921-2002)
Norbert Brainin (1923-2005)
Philip Jones (1928-2000)
Helga Pilarczyk (1935-2011)
Liza Minnelli (1946)
James Taylor (1948)
and
George Berkeley (1685-1753)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916)
Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950)
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
Edward Albee (1928-2016)
Virginia James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-33474433801232528802024-03-11T00:30:00.000-07:002024-03-11T00:30:00.131-07:00Today's BirthdaysCarl Ruggles (1876-1971)
Henry Cowell (1897-1965)
Xavier Montsalvage (1912-2002)
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Sarah Walker (1943)
Tristan Murail (1947)
Bobby McFerrin (1950)
Katia Labèque (1950)
and
Torquato Tasso (1544-1495)
Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983)
Douglas Adams (1952-2001)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-32059399330448470832024-03-10T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-10T00:30:00.125-08:00Today's BirthdaysLorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838)
Dudley Buck (1839-1909)
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
Arthur Honnegger (1892-1955)
Dame Eva Turner (1892-1990)
Bix Biederbecke (1903-1931)
Sir Charles Groves (1915-1992)
William Blezard (1921-2003)
Andrew Parrott (1947)
Stephen Oliver (1950-1992)
and
Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933)
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)
Heywood Hale Broun (1918-2001)
David Rabe (1940)James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-33957757122362158072024-03-09T18:06:00.000-08:002024-03-09T18:14:30.821-08:00World premiere of Phoenix at Seattle's Music of Remembrance - interview with composer Sahba Aminikia and librettist Zara Houshmand Sahba Aminikia and Zara HoushmandOn September 20, 2022, 16-year-old Nika Shakarami joined other Iranian girls and citizens in protesting the death of Mahsa Amini, who died in the custody of the Iranian morality police after appearing in public without the mandated head covering. The teenager’s bravery was the stuff of legends: Nika climbed atop an overturned garbage bin, set her headscarf James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-77505791102692662842024-03-09T15:48:00.000-08:002024-03-09T15:48:00.453-08:00Review of Metropolitan Youth Symphony concert published in Oregon ArtsWatch My review of the MYS concert ("Rooted") is now published in OAW.James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-54941745752273943542024-03-09T15:44:00.000-08:002024-03-09T15:44:30.994-08:00Review of Portland Youth Philharmonic concert published on Oregon ArtsWatch
My musings about the latest PYP concert has been posted on OAW here.James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-3939958040185810102024-03-09T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-09T00:30:00.234-08:00Today's BirthdaysJosef Mysliveczek (1737-1781)
Archie Camden (1888-1979)
Dame Isobel Baillie (1895-1983)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Thomas Schippers (1930-1977)
Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)
David Matthews (1943)
Kalevi Aho (1949)
Howard Shelley (1950)
Anna Clyne (1980)
and
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)
Mickey Spillane (1918-2006)
David Pogue (1963)
and from the Composers Datebook:
James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-29227111842090476862024-03-08T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-08T00:30:00.127-08:00Today's BirthdaysCarlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)
Carl Philip Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903-1998)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Dick Hyman (1927)
Christian Wolff (1934)
Robert Tear (1939-2011)
Barthold Kuijken (1949)
Simon Halsey (1958)
and
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
Leslie Fiedler (1917-2003)
Neil Postman (1931-2003)
John McPhee (1933)
Leslie A. Fiedler (James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-18569031511152046582024-03-07T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-07T00:30:00.138-08:00Today's BirthdaysJohn Wilbye (1574-1638)
Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663-1745)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Heino Eller (1887-1970)
Christopher Seaman (1942)
Uri Segal (1944)
Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997)
Nicholas Kraemer (1945)
Clive Gillinson (1946)
Okko Kamu (1946)
Montserrat Figueras (1948-2011)
Michael Chance (1955)
and
William York Tindall (1903-1981)
William Boyd (1952)
and from the Composers Datebook:
On thisJames Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-80961257491910594022024-03-06T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-06T00:30:00.143-08:00Today's BirthdaysOscar Straus (1870-1954)
Julius Rudel (1921-2014)
Sarah Caldwell (1924-2006)
Wes Montgomery (1923-1968)
Ronald Stevenson (1928-2015)
Lorin Maazel (1930-2014)
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (1944)
Stephen Schwartz (1948)
Marielle Labèque (1952)
Mark Gresham (1956)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (1975)
and
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Ring Lardner (James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-75598616235204909342024-03-05T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-05T00:30:00.174-08:00Today's BirthdayAlphonse Hasselmans (1845-1912)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937)
Pauline Donalda (1882-1970)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Anthony Hedges (1931-2019)
Barry Tuckwell (1931-2020)
Sheila Nelson (1936-2020)
Richard Hickox (1948)
and
Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594)
Frank Norris (1870-1902)
Leslie Marmon Silko (1948)
From The Writer's Almanac:
It was on this day in 1750 that the first Shakespearean play wasJames Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-15977320990551178592024-03-04T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-04T00:30:00.128-08:00Today's BirthdaysAntonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Carlos Surinach (1915-1997)
Cecil Aronowitz (1916-1978)
Samuel Adler (1928)
Bernard Haitink (1929-2021)
Aribert Reimann (1936)
Ralph Kirshbaum (1946)
Leanna Primiani (1968)
and
Khaled Hosseini (1965)
And from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1801,the U.S. Marine Band performed for Thomas Jefferson's inaugural. Jefferson, an avid music lover and amateur James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-54147967547396671032024-03-03T07:47:00.000-08:002024-03-03T07:47:14.145-08:00The Score with Edmund Stone in The Oregonian I've got a fun story about The Score and its creator Edmund Stone in Oregonlive this morning. You can access it here. It will run in the print edition of The Oregonian on Friday.James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-62437962741426104372024-03-03T07:40:00.000-08:002024-03-03T07:43:47.444-08:00Musica Maestrale presents Songs of the Spanish Renaissance this weekend Musica Maestrale presentsSi me llaman a mí:Songs of the Spanish RenaissanceCamila Parias, sopranoHideki Yamaya, vihuelaBoston-based soprano Camila Parias and MM artistic director Hideki Yamaya on vihuela perform villancicos, romances, and sonetos of 16th-century Spain by Luys Milan, Luys de Narbaez, Alonso Mudarra, and Miguel de Fuenllana. A native of Colombia, Ms. Parias is a renowned Lorin Wilkersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14964969679770591434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3373774966243326009.post-13478151722985546792024-03-03T00:30:00.000-08:002024-03-03T00:30:00.148-08:00Today's BirthdaysEugen d'Albert (1864-1932)
Henry Wood (1869-1944)
Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982)
Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)
Frank Wigglesworth (1918-1996)
Doc Watson (1923-2012)
Martin Lovett (1927-2020)
Florence Quivar (1944)
Roberta Alexander (1949)
Katia Labèque (1950)
and
James Merrill (1926-1995)
Ira Glass (1959)
From the Writer's Almanac:
Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata was published on this date James Bashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02313639615830815219noreply@blogger.com0